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Tech Tip: How to Quickly Customize Orbit/Pan Settings in Fusion 360
Coming to Fusion 360 from another CAD tool? This is a simple tip that can go a long way in making your transition easier. When teaching new users, this is actually one of the first points I cover. So, with that in mind, head over to your name in the upper right-hand corner of the dashboard. From that drop down menu, select preferences.
Fusion 360 preferences
From the Preferences menu, on the main screen for General, select the drop down menu from “Pan, Zoom, Orbit Shortcuts”. From this drop down, you have several program choices. The default will be Fusion 360. Select from the other options including Inventor, Solidworks, Alias and TinkerCAD. Kudos to Autodesk for adopting a design mindset for this user experience.
Now, your Pan, Zoom, and Orbit tools will function like the program you are coming over to Fusion 360 from. Hope you enjoyed this tip and keep modeling! If you are attending the Fusion 360 Academy, please join my class “Fusion 360 on a Wacom”.
Here’s a quick list of what these different short-cuts do:
Fusion 360
- Zoom: roll the middle mouse button or Ctrl + Shift + middle mouse button
- Pan: middle mouse button
- Orbit: Shift + middle mouse button
Alias
- Zoom: Shift + Alt + right mouse button
- Pan: Shift + Alt + middle mouse button
- Orbit: Shift + Alt + left mouse button
Inventor (Windows only)
- Zoom: F3 + left mouse button
- Pan: F2 + left mouse button
- Orbit: F4 + left mouse button
SolidWorks
- Zoom: Shift + roll middle mouse button
- Pan: Ctrl + middle mouse button (Windows) or Command + middle mouse button (Mac)
- Orbit: Middle mouse button
Tinkercad
- Zoom: roll the middle mouse button or Ctrl + Shift + middle mouse button
- Pan: middle mouse button
- Orbit: right mouse button
Comments
jsk01
Did the Fusion functionality change in the recent version? I can no longer use CTRL/Shift + center mouse wheel to pan/tilt.
bartosz.phone
My middle mouse button is a roller – there is no chance to press it without scrolling.
And scrolling means zoom. Is a chance to make Pan with LMB or RMB with shift or ctrl or whatever ?
MJMatulay
It’s super great that you’ve tried to make it easier for people coming from other programs. But this doesn’t solve the problem which loads of people are having who don’t have a middle mouse button. Every single available option for mac users has a mouse command which requires a middle mouse button. This is unbelievably inconvenient and slows down the workflow. It can’t be that difficult to add extra options for mouse commands. Please add this functionality.
winter.funcMQX9H
Is it possible to change the hot keys for functions Orbit/Pan/zoom?
artant.me
+1 against middle mouse button for mac. Also if you are using wacom it’s a nightmare. Please add some possibilities to hold alt/cmd/shift to double the middle button functionality, for those who doesn’t have a middle button.
nicolas.chollet
Hello! Could you implement a way to choose the button we want for this settings please? I have a gaming mouse with a lot of buttons and I would like to use one to orbit instead of pressing shift. Thanks a lot.